Quotes About Public Houses

#1. Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since it is notorious that all manner of people frequent all manner of public-houses - which in this respect resemble railway stations and mad-houses.

Patrick Hamilton

#2. Writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.'

Allison Williams

#4. People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

John Betjeman

#5. The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

John Piper

#6. This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

Mary Matalin

#7. Education is ... doing anything that changes you.

George Leonard

#8. The games enthralled the public and diverted their attentions from the Halo wars. And - unlike the arts - they could not be used as vehicles for subversion. For gamers like myself it was a near-utopian state of affairs. We were pampered and courted by the houses and made immensely rich.

Alastair Reynolds

#9. Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it.

Ed Strachar

#10. The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger.

Austin Mahone

#11. The Goths didn't destroy Rome, nor did they massacre the population. On the contrary, the Barbarians took particular care to provide safe-houses for civilians and not to harm public buildings.

Terry Jones

#12. The great hospitals, houses of confinement, establishments of religion and public order, of assistance and punishment, of governmental charity and welfare measures, are a phenomenon of the classical period:

Michel Foucault

#13. The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Paul Keating

#14. Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

Wilhelm Reich

#15. Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#16. Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

Alice Morse Earle

#17. Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

Jennifer Lynch

#18. Houses of Congress have ... requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.

George Washington

#19. I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

Steve Almond

#20. True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.

Chan Kilgore

#21. Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

Jane Bowles

#22. As she trotted down the stairs, she saw Blake stand up, tucking his piano in his pocket. The day's bright sun had him trapped in his spot in the shade. She stepped into his cover and kissed him.
"Thanks for the roses. And Teddy loves his bow." She brushed her hands through his hair.

Debra Anastasia

#23. In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Stephen Gardiner

#24. There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

Pat Buchanan

#25. I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes in power these walls of governor houses will be brought down. We will break these walls and make libraries and playgrounds for the public to use

Imran Khan

#26. Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

Frederic Morton

#27. We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

John Prescott

#28. He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.

Leonard Cohen

#29. Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses ... that's also the way you win over constituency.

Johnny Isakson

#30. Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, is usually kept secret to boost public confidence in the art market.

Peter Landesman

#31. Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Robin Day

#32. I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

Ned Beauman

#33. Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.

Debasish Mridha